Sallust Quotes

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

That which is cannot be true.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Metaphysics is a science.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Cause nothing really is and everything really isn’t.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.